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Anyone have any experience with either the Nice or the Veeam MP. Looking to see which one to look at I know the Veeam one is supposed to be good but pricey. It does have the advantage of having a dashboard pack already built. If the Nice one is just as good though it should not be too hard to build a dashboard or maybe Nice would be nice (pun intended) and publish one for us like they did with some of their other management packs.

We use the Veeam MP currently but will be moving to the NiCE option as soon as we can. Already have NiCE's Oracle and Office 365 MP's and in terms of support and functionality, they're excellent. I saw a demo of their VMware MP at a conference recently and it was enough to convince me. I also really like that they publish dashboard packs for Squared Up to compliment their MP's. I'm sure they said that one is coming for… Continue reading

We use the Veeam MP currently but will be moving to the NiCE option as soon as we can. Already have NiCE's Oracle and Office 365 MP's and in terms of support and functionality, they're excellent. I saw a demo of their VMware MP at a conference recently and it was enough to convince me.
I also really like that they publish dashboard packs for Squared Up to compliment their MP's. I'm sure they said that one is coming for the VMware MP so I'm hoping to get a really decent off-the-shelf solution that blows the Veeam offering away.
Big thumbs up for NiCE! Sadly, I've never felt the same about Veeam.

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We are running the Veeam MP and we are satisfied with the information it gives back. With the latest version you have the ability to create your own alerts in Vcenter and have Veeam trigger on them.

Veeam also gives you information that Vcenter doesn’t alert on by default by analyzing performance graphs.

We evaluated Opslogic as well 3-4 years ago but we decided that Veeam was better.

One drawback but that’s more of a scom problem is the rollup problem. One nic goes down on a host then you will get an alert from the nic, the host, the cluster and possibly vcenter as well. We have disabled rollup for some common alerts that gives to much clutter.

If you get lucky and can wait a while you can hope that Veeam gives away the MP for free. We have made such a deal. 10 sockets for free for one year. We had of course more sockets than that but the price for the first year was a lot cheaper.